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Initiative sponsors filed a total of 52 measures targeting the Massachusetts 2024 ballot—the most over the last six election cycles

In Massachusetts, the initiative filing deadline for the 2024 ballot was Aug. 3. Initiative sponsors filed 52 measures (49 initiated state statutes and three initiated constitutional amendments) by the deadline—the most filed over the last six election cycles. The average number of initiatives filed between 2012 and 2022 was 29.…

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Back-to-School Shopping 2024: Every Tax-Free Weekend

Does your state have a back-to-school sales tax holiday this summer? Find out when, and what, you can buy tax-free.

Kiplinger

Massachusetts rejects request to discharge radioactive water from closed nuclear plant into bay

Massachusetts environmental regulators have denied a request by the company dismantling a shuttered nuclear power plant to release more than 1 million gallons of radioactive wastewater into Cape Cod Bay

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Barack Obama’s personal chef drowns near the family’s home on Martha’s Vineyard

Body of Tafari Campbell recovered from pond near Obamas’ home in Massachusetts

Evening Standard

Obama chef death – latest: Tafari Campbell identified as man who died paddleboarding near Obama’s home

In a statement of mourning, the Obamas Campbell as ‘a beloved part of our family’

The Independent UK

Massachusetts is updating its sex education guidelines for the first time in 24 years

In June 2023, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts shared with the public a draft of a new framework that will guide how elementary, middle and high schools in the state approach sex education.

The Conversation

Now a Floridian, Boston Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca says why he left Massachusetts

Surprisngly, it wasn't the taxes -- unlike (at least in part) Grant Williams.

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Tesla CyberCanopy Might Be Installed At Massachusetts Supercharger Location

The Tesla CyberCanopy could help the brand meet its increasing energy needs in the future without overburdening the grid.

InsideEVs

Using green banks to solve America’s affordable housing crisis – and climate change at the same time

Green banks are starting to draw attention in the U.S., particularly since the federal government announced its first grant competitions under a national green bank program to bring clean technology and more affordable energy to low-income communities.

The Conversation

Early-week floods leave Western Mass. crops ‘a total loss’ for some farmers

Jon Galenski’s land in South Deerfield was no exception to the widespread damage torrential rains inflicted on farms across Western Massachusetts earlier this week.

Boston Herald

More than 1,000 acres of crops destroyed in Massachusetts by storms, floods

At least 75 farms were soaked and more than 1,000 acres of crops lost after heavy storms earlier this week in Western Massachusetts, state agriculture officials said Friday morning.

Boston Herald

Seven murders by cyanide-laced Tylenol will never be solved. But the prime suspect’s death brings justice

After a joint FBI task force was unable to pin the 1982 Tylenol murders on prime suspect James Lewis, special agent Roy Lane was coaxed out of retirement to carry out a daring undercover mission. He tells Bevan Hurley Lewis’ death this week ‘puts the pursuit of justice to an…

The Independent UK

Court Greenlights Microsoft Acquisition of Video Game Powerhouse Activision Blizzard

Plus: California social media law could backfire, Massachusetts may ban the sale of phone location data, and more...

Reason

Americans warned not to swim or drive in hazardous flood waters

Residents face toxic and drowning hazards as officials in Vermont and Massachusetts survey damage from devastating inundation

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Massachusetts Considers Ban on Sale of Phone Location Data

Abortion and privacy activists join over concerns that cell phones track our movements.

Reason

Massachusetts' Wealth Tax Encouraged NBA's Grant Williams To Sign With Dallas

Grant Williams breaks down the math: "$54 million in Dallas is really like $58 million in Boston."

WEKU

An overdue library book makes a return trip to the shelves — 119 years later

There are overdue library books. Then there's An Elementary Treatise on Electricity, which was last checked out in Massachusetts in 1904. It finally made it back after being spotted in West Virginia.

The Independent UK

Extremely overdue book returned to Massachusetts library 119 years later

A Massachusetts library is celebrating the return of a book more than a century after it was last checked out

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University of Chicago partners with Massachusetts firm to incubate startup companies in Hyde Park Labs

CHICAGO — Chicago’s life sciences industry is about to get another much-needed shot in the arm. The University of Chicago signed a partnership agreement with CIC, a Massachusetts-based operator of shared workspaces and labs, to incubate dozens of faculty-led startup companies within the university’s leased space in Hyde Park Labs,…

WEKU

A woman is found alive and stuck in the mud a week after she went missing

Hikers found the woman at Borderland State Park in Massachusetts, and police used all-terrain vehicles to rescue her.

Tribune News Service

Harvard legacy admissions targeted by Massachusetts lawmakers

A bill in Massachusetts seeks to tax rich colleges that favor families of alumni and donors in admissions policies — namely Harvard University — and give the money to poorer community colleges.

Daily Mirror

Millwall FC owner John Berylson died after Range Rover careered off road in tragic crash

The American business, who first became involved with the Championship club in 2006, died on Tuesday after an early morning crash in Massachusetts

Daily Mirror

Missing woman who got stuck in mud found alive after screaming for three days

A missing Massachusetts woman who was stuck in mud in a national park for at least three days was found 'conscious and alert' on Monday by two hikers

The Independent UK

Missing woman is rescued after spending three days stuck in mud at Massachusetts park

Emma Tetewsky was found after other hikers heard screams in Borderlake State Park

Boston Herald

93-year-old Massachusetts man on a tricycle is struck and killed, juvenile was driving vehicle: Police

A 93-year-old Massachusetts man riding a tricycle was struck and killed by a vehicle over the weekend in Merrimac, according to police.

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